Solution: Guns and Butter
Answer: VISA

Written by Kenny Young

The solved grid looks like this:


Now that the grid is complete, we can look around the 1x1 ships as instructed; specifically, we can sum the values that are orthogonally touching each of the ships. In order:

7 + 7 + 5 + 3 = 22V
6 + 2 + 1 = 9I
7 + 6 + 6 + 0 = 19S
1 + 0 = 1A

Thus the answer is VISA.